In a recent project, we wanted our JavaScript to be built by webpack. We also wanted to remove the dependency to the Web.Optimization framework and solely use NPM and webpack to generate our files. This technique goes for assets in production because a rev-manifest.json is a pointer to…

Sometimes developers gets tired of developing. It has been a long time since I've written a post. I'm sort of in a transitional part of my life while there is a lot of adjustment happening. Because of a new regime. A new job. A different job. Trust me, I love…

I used to dislike Angular a bit. Angular was one of those frameworks that were easy to recognize. I never felt like I was writing "real" JavaScript when I wrote Angular. Your applications became Angular applications. And those applications felt large and clumsy. Good for when you're making something that…

Newsletters like JavaScript Weekly has helped me tremendously over the years. If something big happens in the JS community you will be up to speed. Lately, JavaScript Weekly seems to feature more stories about frameworks like React and Angular. I wouldn't mind these kinds of features in moderation, but it…

There has been a lot of fuzz in the developer open source community lately. Mostly towards the developers that criticize ever changing open source projects in a public demeanor. A post about "the sad state of web development" has caught the attention of many developers. This is where you really…